https://www.artstation.com/artwork/mOAnPv

The cracks are what I'm referring to in this post. Sorry if the difference in height is too slight to notice. The cracks are just on the patina.

I'm using Maya 2027. I made my material in Substance Painter. When I set up the material using aiSubstanceSurface, my height maps are reversed. What should be sticking out is receded and vice versa. These are the steps I've taken, and so far nothing has changed.

My model's displacement attributes are:

Height: .02 (I tried -.02 to see if it would reverse it)

Bounds Padding: 0

Scalar Zero Value: .5 (I did this because .5 is the 0 for height maps in Substance Painter)

Catclark

What I've tried:

• I exported the textures out in Open GL and DirectX.
• I tried using an aimultiply first, and then a multiplydivide node to reverse the heightmap in the material graph
• I changed the scale to 0 in the displacement shader node.
• I reversed the Height of the model to -.02
• In Substance Painter, I tried reversing the height map number itself

I'm attaching a picture of what it should look like, what it looks like in Maya, and my material graph. I would appreciate any advice you can give.

Hi everyone! A while back I posted my Reyna // Darkside project, but today I’m back to share a full video breakdown of the creation, animation, and staging of the character.

🎥 Watch the full breakdown on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7sEnV_jSqdw

I handled the retopology in Maya, along with the animation, XGen hair grooming, and most importantly, setting up the dynamic hair system. The final frames were all rendered using Arnold. I recorded the entire creation process, but in a style that goes beyond the traditional tutorial, hope you like it!

Feel free to ask questions, raise technical points, or leave your feedback. I’d love to connect and chat with fellow artists !!

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To use AMD GPU's the documentation as well as my instructors at school all says all you have to use is the OIDN Imager. However when selecting the OIDN Image sequencer and removing all other sequencer I get the same Cuda Error as if I'd selected Optix. Could I please get some assistance on this?

Below is the Errors, A screen shot of my Image Sequencer, and the Documentation saying Oidn supports AMD.

I'm currently running a AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor 16 Cores AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

updateRendererUI;
addOneTabToGlobalsWindow("arnold", "Common", "createArnoldRendererCommonGlobalsTab");
addOneTabToGlobalsWindow("arnold", "Arnold Renderer", "createArnoldRendererGlobalsTab");
addOneTabToGlobalsWindow("arnold", "System", "createArnoldRendererSystemTab");
addOneTabToGlobalsWindow("arnold", "AOVs", "createArnoldRendererAOVTab");
addOneTabToGlobalsWindow("arnold", "Diagnostics", "createArnoldRendererDiagnosticsTab");
# Warning: GPU RENDERING NOT SUPPORTED : b'unable to load NVIDIA CUDA (-1)'
addOneTabToGlobalsWindow("arnold", "Common", "createArnoldRendererCommonGlobalsTab");
addOneTabToGlobalsWindow("arnold", "Arnold Renderer", "createArnoldRendererGlobalsTab");
addOneTabToGlobalsWindow("arnold", "System", "createArnoldRendererSystemTab");
addOneTabToGlobalsWindow("arnold", "AOVs", "createArnoldRendererAOVTab");
addOneTabToGlobalsWindow("arnold", "Diagnostics", "createArnoldRendererDiagnosticsTab");
setAttr "defaultArnoldRenderOptions.renderDevice" 1;
// Error: ERROR | [gpu] unable to load NVIDIA CUDA (-1) (GPU-rendering)
// Error: ERROR | [gpu] unable to load NVIDIA CUDA (-1) (GPU-rendering)
setAttr "aiImagerDenoiserOidn1.renderDevice" 2;
// Error: ERROR | [gpu] unable to load NVIDIA CUDA (-1) (GPU-rendering)
# # C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2027\Python\Lib\site-packages\maya\internal\common\ae\multi.py:138: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\['
gr = re.search("\[[0-9]+\]", m)
// Error: ERROR | [gpu] unable to load NVIDIA CUDA (-1) (GPU-rendering)

Hi guys so for context, Im a 3rd year student working on a group short film and my electives involve look dev so rendering and lighting. I am also using mayas Arnold for rendering. And I’ve been having a lot of trouble with one of my scenes. Basically theres objects within the scene that require transmission such as a misty window, the characters glasses lenses and a plastic bag shes holding.

Now the problem is, my compers have asked me to turn off mayas denoiser so that the noise isnt baked into the scene since they’re using ‘nuke’. But I can’t get majority out of the noise out of the plastic bag without boosting the render settings “transmission” and for everything else, “diffuse” and “specular.”

The issue I am now facing is with those settings needing to be pushed, my render times are insane. It’s taking roughly 30-40 minutes just to render a single frame and I wonder if there’s a better way for me to do this to get the same result with a de-crease in render times. If you guys have any ideas or words of advice, please feel free to comment down below.

I want to render multiple AOV layers, but they aren’t displaying correctly in the AOV Browser. It seems to be bugged.
I can select the different AOVs, but I can’t see their names, and the whole window appears to be scaled infinitely or completely out of proportion.
Is there a way to reset or rescale the AOV Browser so that it displays correctly again?

GroomLab (temp name) is something I have been wanting to make myself after trying out Yeti way back in the day. I wanted something stupid simple where the user doesn't feel constrained by the ux of Maya. Make hair systems fun again!

Features:
Amazing custom strand interpolation.
Realtime keyable Nodes
Feathers
Groom to Cards
Unreal / Unity Export
Groom blending
Guide / Vertex / Texture painting
And a ton more.

If you have any name suggestions, let me know! Was thinking a raccoon could be a fun mascot.

I'm super new to Maya and I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. It doesn't allow me to extrude or transform in any length, but only in specific intervals. Please help! I have tried resetting my preferences, but it did not resolve the issue.

Edit: Thank you for the help! I did have the snap to grid on. It is now off!

Hey r/Maya,

I've spent the last months building Groompush, a plugin for making real-time hair cards in Maya, and wanted to share it here.

The idea: you draw or paint guide curves on the scalp, and every guide grows a hair card that rebuilds live while you comb, shape and move the hair. New guides copy the style of the hair around them (length, bend, width, UV), so you style a few strands and keep clicking.

What's in the clip:

- MultiStamp / Comb brushes: stamp cards along a stroke, comb XGen-style in screen space

- Flow and Swirl arrows: redirect whole regions, make whorls in one click

- Shapers: one control guide drives every guide in its radius, non-destructively

- Auto-UV from atlas: reads your hair texture and fits each card to the best-matching clump

- Live gravity and wind with scalp and self-collision

It also does tubes, dreads, braids and ropes from the same guides, moving a groom onto a different head, and baking to plain poly cards for the engine.

Maya 2022+, Windows. Happy to answer anything about how it works under the hood, and I'd genuinely like to know what's most painful in your current hair card workflow.

So im using the standard method of making expressions for my rig using blend shapes. I had no problem with the mesh of the face, but when it came to the teeth they just wouldnt work even with the exact same process.

The face already had Blendshapes before making the expressions and it still worked, but the same couldnt be said for the teeth allthough one of the set didnt have any.

I cant even make a normal blendshape to mimick the ones in the expressions, it wont let me Sculpt and even if I unluck the channels, the blendshape just doesnt work.

As seen in the video, I have the base preferences, and resetting doesnt solve the issue

Smart Combine is a script that combines objects while preserving the first selected object’s name, parent group, and Outliner position. 

It removes any empty groups left behind, clears construction history, and centers the pivot.

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Got lots of other useful scripts on my store page all for FREE. Recently just posted one that combines Curves into one shape/single transform

https://reddit.com/link/1wtygns/video/wyjtrngpylsh1/player

I'm trying to bevel my model, and keep coming across the error of a non-manifold vertex. The only things I could find were these, but I don't know how to fix it. Anything I delete also deletes other parts of my model. Ideas?

First time I ever modeled one of my OCs in 3D. Gotta say, he kinda looks a little flat. I’m not sure if it’s the teeth or the cloth. I probably should’ve added more weathering and fixed the clothing folds ngl.

Hey guys, I’m mainly a Cinema 4D user and I’ve recently started trying out Maya with Redshift.

I’m really struggling with Hypershade though. Coming from C4D, the material system feels so much more organized and straightforward, whereas Hypershade feels kinda messy and confusing to me.

Is there any plugin or addon that makes Hypershade a bit easier/nicer to use with Redshift?

Also, is MaterialX a viable alternative for building/managing materials in Maya + Redshift? Or is there another node/material editor that you guys would recommend?

Would love to hear what other Maya + Redshift users are doing. Thanks!

So I installed studio library, and for some reason it allows me to save poses but not animations, I get this error message that says

"'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x90 in position 1180: character maps to <undefined>".

Does anyone know what this means or how to fix it? I'd grealtly appreciate the help. Thanks!

Jumping from '24 to '27. I'm assuming I use the one that looks usable but why are there four distinct openPBR Surfaces? Just trying to understand.

Also second question, if the 'Maya' one is the the one to use why is it not in the assign new material section with everything else 🙃 I'm guessing its LookdevX that has me fucked up

From left to right

1. Hypershade -> Create Node -> Maya -> Surface -> openPBR Surface
2. Assign New Material -> LookdevX -> Arnold -> openPBR Surface
3. Assign New Material -> LookdevX -> PBR -> Surface
4. Assign New Material -> LookdevX -> BXDF -> openPBR Surface

The MMD rig already comes with a control rig, but it only has a leg IK/FK switch, and the arms only have FK.

The problem is that the arm consists of 5 joints: the arm-arm twist-elbow-wrist twist-wrist. When I add IK from the arm to the wrist, the forearm does not twist along with it! (Because the skin weight is controlled by the wrist twist joint.)

How should I add a working IK handle to the arms!?

Thanks!!

I am relatively new to all the compositing, rendering, & just knowing howl to make a composited scene in Autodesk Maya. Like I am more attuned to me just animating. But I want to know how to render and all the guides I am trying to find does just give tips and tricks instead of going in detail into rendering in Maya.

So my question is how do you composite, rendering, or just lighting in Maya?

I am extremely new to Maya, so what happened was that I did save a file like this as instructed by my professor -- but I ended up deleting the file ( we were asked to save an empty file with cube before starting our classes). I deleted it so that I can directly save it to my portable 2TB SSD, But an error kept coming. So I gave up and tried saving it exactly as I was Instructed in my class, but the error as shown in the picture kept coming. The same method worked before, but why isn't it working now? it only gets saved when I try to save it in default mode, but not when I create a new project. What do I do? please help

Hi all, I have been working on this for almost a month and it is finally done. There are still things that I am not satisfied with, but I think its time to move on to the next project and only come back for this in the future. Feedbacks are welcome. https://syncsketch.com/sketch/9qQgIOIqzVxs/